Of all the world's religious traditions, none has been more closely scrutinized for its fis- sures than "Hinduism." Put simply, it is now fashionable to argue that there is no such thing.
Two prominent scholars, Wilfred Cantwell Smith and Robert E. Frykenberg, have been instrumental in establishing the idea that it was not just the history of Hindu- ism that was invented by outsiders but its very identity. It is worth looking at the work of Smith and Frykenberg to see whether the idea...